Archbishop Gregory said Catholics are specifically “enraged” about allegations of abuse by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick and find “any pastoral negligence in protecting our people is similarly grievous.”
Sexual Abuse
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UK inquiry: Monks hid sex abuse to protect church reputation
Sexual abuse at two leading Catholic schools in England was considerably higher than is reflected by conviction figures.
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Sex abuse expert: Crisis is a call to a new vision of the priesthood
Dealing with the reality of potential abuse and the history of clerical sexual abuse in the church is a process.
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Celibate gay Catholics score ‘clerical cover-up culture,’ fear backlash
“Making this a gay issue is distraction, mostly, an attempt to place blame mostly (away from) from the clerical cover-up culture. It does a major disservice to women who were abused by the church and also a major disservice to gay priests.”
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Reaction to the McCarrick story in the West Coast remains muted so far
“I get far more emails and phone calls about things like immigration, issues that are more politically controversial.”
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Cardinal Cupich supports investigation into mishandling of McCarrick complaints
It appears “there was somebody [who] dropped the ball.”
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Albany bishop says laypeople should investigate misconduct by U.S. bishops
Bishop Edward Scharfenberger said, “we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer.”
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Pittsburgh bishop says report will be ‘sad, tragic description’ of events
“I continue to be deeply concerned about the victims and the ongoing pain and suffering they endure,” Bishop Zubik said in the letter, read at all Masses.
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Is there a sexual abuse reckoning coming for the Latino church?
“For Hispanics, whatever the priest says goes. But that’s not right. The priest is not God. Nobody is above God.”
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The sex abuse scandal and the debasing of Catholic language
Holiness is incumbent upon all, but we also must strive to embrace the challenge to reappropriate the language of the evangelical counsels, now recast as evangelical imperatives.